A Microsoft Update killed printing in Reporting Services
One client recently had a novel experience with their SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services installation. One day the printing feature stopped to work with this error: Turns out Microsoft decided to kill the print control because of a security issue… Upgrading SQL Server 2005 with Service Pack 3 installed a new version of the control and solved the problem…
Read MoreSharePoint Diagnostic tool
The SharePoint diagnostic tool (SPDiag) is included in the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit. It comes in handy when analyzing and troubleshooting SharePoint implementations. Copied from the tothesharepoint blog – http://blogs.technet.com/tothesharepoint/archive/2009/02/05/3197739.aspx: “With SPDiag, you can: Collect IIS and ULS log files, performance counter data, event logs, and WMI instrumentation data from a SharePoint farm. Filter data to show granular information related …
Read MoreSharePoint eats PerformancePoint
Microsoft has announced that PerformancePoint will be eaten by SharePoint and SQL Server. PerformancePoint will be discontinued as a stand-alone product and features like the scorecard’ing, KPI and graphing will be integrated into SharePoint. Microsofts BI strategy appears to focus on SharePoint, Excel and SQL Server. More info will probably be available within a few days…
Read MoreIE8 RC1 released
Microsoft has now released the RC1 of the new version 8 of Internet Explorer more information here http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/01/26/internet-explorer-8-release-candidate-now-available.aspx
Read MoreCommunity Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint v1.3
While waiting for decent developer support for SharePoint in Visual Studio 2010 one might use the STSADM utiliy from codeplex. However, Microsoft is working on it and now the 1.3 version of the Visual Studio extensions fix some of the earlier shortcomings of the Microsoft tools, get the CTP and try it out…
Read MoreAviary out of private beta
One of my favourite examples of what can be done with RIA’s, Aviary, is now out of private beta. Their new website is www.aviary.com. My favourite app is Peacock, a pattern generation tool that makes it really easy to create complex structures based on images, such as this one: http://aviary.com/artists/mpeutz/images/coffee_3 or perhaps all generated, like this: http://aviary.com/creation?fguid=c1bc6fec-5aae-102b-a5ee-0030488e168c I can also …
Read MoreHow to access Windows Live SkyDrive from Explorer
With the recent introduction of 25 GB online storage available through the Windows Live SkyDrive service, I became interested in trying it out again. However, the standard interface is through a web interface and I prefer to also have the option to access it through a standard explorer interface or through something like Outlook. While snooping around for options, I …
Read MoreTypemock for SharePoint
There is now a Typemock product for unit testing SharePoint called Isolator For SharePoint. It allows you to unit test SharePoint without a SharePoint server.
Read MoreWindows 7 development
The MSDN Windows 7 developer guide has been released here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Win7DeveloperGuide includes more general information on the upcoming release, including screenshots…
Read MoreSharePoint development with Visual Studio 2010
News about the upcoming release of Visual Studio starts to pop up everywhere. Here is a video demonstrating some of the features involving SharePoint development. It seems to address some of the shortcomings of the current approach. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Sharepoint-Development-with-Visual-Studio-2010/
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